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Updated: May 15, 2025
"Papa! oh, save him!" It was Puttee Rooge! "Remember," continued she, "his misfortunes remember, oh, remember my love!" and here she blushed, and putting one finger into her mouth, and banging down her head, looked the very picture of modest affection. Holkar sulkily sheathed his scimitar, and muttered, "'Tis better as it is; had I killed him now, I had spared him the torture.
Sitting on the side of his narrow bunk, his hands clenched, his face white, was Zaidos. "What's the row, old top?" Nick sang out cheerfully as he made a great pretense of picking up his books and stuffing a couple of pencils in the top of his pigskin puttee. The young Greek shook his head, and Nick realized that it was something indeed very serious with him.
Awful smooth' but' murderin'. Are you game, Porky, to land him ourselves?" "Sure!" said Porky. "Ain't I alwus? What comes first?" "Le's think," said Beany. You would not have thought they were thinking at all as they sat on the broad brick steps, holding their chins in their right hands, left hands twisting their puttee lacers.
Their uniforms, all similar of course, consisted of identically the same hat as that worn in the Navy; a white jacket, very long and very loose, with baggy sleeves, the collar, front, and skirt, and the edges of the cuffs all edged with broad Chinese-blue braid; and short and baggy trousers, gathered just below the knee, and tucked into a kind of "puttee" legging, consisting of a long wrapping of white canvas.
Give me a pipe; leave me alone, and tell me when the meal is ready." I thought by these means to put off the fair Puttee Rooge, and hoped to be able to escape without subjecting myself to the examination of her curious eyes.
"Well, who are you?" said Velo, trying to get back. "Your very humble servant, John Smith," he said. He slid the pencil down into his puttee and stood up, bowing. He did not ask Velo for his name but, closing the pad, strolled off and slid an arm around the neck of the second son of the Prince of Teck.
The warrior at the gate gave the word and was admitted; the woman returned slowly to the Indian camp. Her name was Puttee Rooge; his was Thus my dangers for the night being overcome, I hastened with my precious box into my own apartment, which communicated with another, where I had left my prisoner, with a guard to report if he should recover, and to prevent his escape.
But the ankle-man's wound was still bleeding when I turned again to him. It trickled through my plugging. It's a difficult thing to stop the bleeding from such a place. Seeing the plug was useless I tried another way. I rolled up one of his puttees, put it under his knee, braced his knee up and tied it in position with the other puttee.
Then, before he got up, he pulled the card that had the elastic attached to it from his sleeve and held it so the elastic was concealed. "Here um card," he said, as he showed it to every one. "Me puttee in um pack, so be." Roche was watching him closely, for he knew that the Chinaman was up to something, and he was certain that the card went into the pack. But it did not.
He groaned and dropped the rock to take his leg in both hands, and then Virginia rushed to the rescue. "How badly are you hurt?" she asked, kneeling down beside him, but he jerked ungraciously away. "Go away and leave me alone!" he shouted to the world at large and the Widow took the hint to withdraw. Then in a series of frenzied curses Wiley stripped off his puttee and felt of his injured leg.
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